2022-23 Budget
The 2022-23 Queensland Health budget focuses on investing in new hospitals and facilities, hiring additional workforce, redesigning models of care, strengthening mental health and adopting new technology.
Queensland Health’s budget for 2022-23 is a record $23.6 billion.
The budget includes:
- $1.1 billion for the Queensland Ambulance Service
- $1.537 billion investment (in 2022-23) in health infrastructure across the state
- $1.6 billion to improve mental health and wellbeing over five years.
A capital pipeline over the next seven years has been announced, including:
- $9.78 billion additional funding over six years allocated for the Capacity Expansion Program
- $229.7 million funding over two years allocated for the Accelerated Infrastructure Delivery Program
- $943.5 million funding over seven years provided to replace rural and remote health facilities and staff accommodation under Phase 2 of the Building Rural and Remote Health Program
More information on these and other health initiatives and highlights, published in the 2022-23 State Budget, is shown below, and is available in the Queensland Health and Hospitals Plan (PDF 3181 kB).
Total Queensland Health budget
$23.6 billion
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Budget highlights
Queensland Health
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Building for the future
Transforming the system
Investing in our people
Improving mental health
Building for the future
- $1.53 billion capital investment into health infrastructure:
- Paving the way for the biggest health capital commitment in Queensland’s history
- Continued funding of additional beds under the Care4 Qld strategy and recurrent funding for winter bed capacity
- $10.9 billion capital pipeline over the next seven years.
Transforming the system
- Redesigning models of care, reform the health system and adopt new technology, including:
- building on the Hospital in the Home and telehealth models of care which did well during the COVID-19 pandemic response
- investing in digital technology to deliver more care closer to home for our patients
Investing in our people
- Meeting current and future workforce demands by:
- continuing our commitment to hire 9,475 additional frontline workers by 2024.
- looking interstate and overseas to bolster our workforce
Improving mental health
- $1.6 billion injected over five years to:
- help deliver the Better Care Together: a plan for Queensland’s state-funded mental health alcohol and other drug services strategy to alleviate pressure on the acute mental health system
- improve additional mental health care capacity, including community-based services and the mental health co-responder model to support timely and appropriate health responses to patients experiencing a mental health crisis.
Last updated: 23 June 2022
